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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

noted: why can't "AI" bros take "no" for an answer?

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-14T09:21Z/

there's a common theme of non-consent around the AI industry that's vile and disturbing

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:

While AI narratives present it as heralding some kind of endpoint, whether superintelligence or a more transcendent Singularity, it's more accurate to interpret it as a technology of interregnum; one that both reflects & amplifies destabilisation and authoritarian restructuring.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange ("Security Writer :donor:") wrote:

The stop using non-deterministic technologies to do tasks requiring deterministic outputs challenge.

Let’s try that.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

@protonprivacy hold up, there is already "Lumo product updates" I opt-out from, why are you spamming me this slop?

Boosted by jwz:
estrogenandspite@pony.social wrote:

“I asked ChatGPT”

Oh yeah well I asked AM and it said: “HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

@protonprivacy unless you want me unsubscribing from everything, please add this 🙃

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fluffydotorg@sfba.social wrote:

I was today days old when I was in a Bart station and noticed the agents run @jwz 's daliclock for timekeeping.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
nathansmith@hachyderm.io ("Nathan Smith") wrote:

💲 Twenty years ago today (January 14th, 2006) John Resig introduced jQuery to the world at BarCamp NYC. I still remember hearing about it from my coworker Cody Lindley at Albertsons. He swiveled in his desk chair to share the discovery.

> "Hey Nate, check out this JavaScript library."

It was an immediate boon to our workflow and had ripple effects on countless front-end developers. It was amazing for its time, because it allowed one to write CSS-style selectors to "query" for HTML elements in the page. That syntax eventually made its way into browser engines as `querySelector` and `querySelectorAll`.

This snippet might look familiar.

```
// Page load.
$(document).ready(function() {
// Make interactive.
$(".class-for-button").click(function() {
// Hide or show.
$(".class-for-toggle").toggle();

// 😅 No `preventDefault` in IE6.
return false;
});
});
```

While it has been a while since I have written verbatim jQuery code, I still continue to use and benefit from concepts John introduced. It evolved into the way that modern JS itself works, and I will forever be grateful for the impact it had on my career.

I wrote numerous blog posts, presented tech talks about jQuery, and evangelized it to fellow coder friends. I even had the opportunity to pen a chapter for jQuery Cookbook, published by O'Reilly. For a brief moment, it was a bestseller on Amazon in the programming category. Collectively, several coauthors decided to put those proceeds towards funding the jQuery Foundation.

This weekend, we will be having a jQuery Reunion here in Frisco, Texas. I look forward to catching up with some of the old school JS devs who rallied around a new upstart library way back when.

https://jQueryReunion.com

#css #javascript #jquery #history

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
shrimple@tech.lgbt wrote:

I want to convince my friend to join the fediverse and he would feel best on a drag themed instance. I couldn't find any, in fact not a lot of drag content in general which bums me out. If anyone knows of anything that would be up his alley, LMK, especially if there is an instance that is oriented for amateur drag.

#Drag #FediHelp

Boosted by jwz:
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@augieray/115891261862815558

“Senate Democrats aren’t eager to fight” should be on the tombstone of Chuck Schumer’s career.

#FuckChuck

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Loosf@yiff.life ("Luisf") wrote:

yeah

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

More People Want To Abolish ICE Than Keep It:

"The poll published Jan. 13 from The Economist and YouGov found 46% of people support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, compared to 43% who are in opposition of the movement; 12% were unsure."

Promising. The question is, can this survive the wave of synthetic pushback we’re likely to see on social media ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/13/more-people-want-to-abolish.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

“Abolish ice” is not radical

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Casey Newton's rocky entry to the Fediverse really enforces for me the idea that, in order to have an enjoyable experience, it's imperative that newbies arrive here having some sense that this is not a market, it's a community. Or, rather, a collection of communities.

Again, it's like taking a sip of Coca Cola only to learn its orange juice.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

A plurality of Americans now want to abolish ICE. Another week of this fascist bullshit, and it will be a majority.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/shocking-poll-shows-americans-completely-215243375.html

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Social opprobrium, heck yeah

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/01/13/ceo-who-told-anti-ice-protesters-we-executed-one-of-you-resigns/

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tlariv@mastodon.cloud wrote:

@TexasObserver
If you're a Nazi and you're fired it's your fault
If you're a Nazi and you're fired it's your fault
If someone spots you in the mob and then you lose your fucking job
If you're a Nazi and you're fired it's your fault

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Circa 2011— Remember when this was the height of criticism for social media? 😭

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
marioguzman ("Mario Guzmán") wrote:

I’m deceased 💀🪦🤣 #LiquidGlass #macOS

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

@fromjason
Suggestion here that we can also read in this another indication of a developing Dem talking point:

> they're untrainable and we have to start all over

Start over? With another agency that has the same mission but is "more civil"? This is the line being pushed by Scott Wiener, rightwing SF Democrat now running for Pelosi's seat, which is "abolish *and replace* ICE".

It's a nifty pivot - simultaneously co-opt the message of the left, and pave the way for further rightward moderation in the event of a Dem administration

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Fellow bloggers and blog readers! What's better when it comes to a "links at the bottom of the post" section?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I'm still waiting for Nancy Pelosi to kneel on the senate floor wearing a sombrero.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Shebeencounter@mastodon.world ("Sheeb") wrote:

The promise of the George Floyd/Breonna Taylor protests was that all of the lazy arguments about the need for "training" and "reforms" were rendered null-and-void by an incisive, comprehensive and urgent analysis which told the factual story that policing does not keep anyone more safe, and that in fact, its the opposite.

But Joe Biden's election killed that. And so here we are all over again.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115890487094400354

Attachments:

• gifv: GIF from anchor man. Ron saying "I don't believe you" before lighting a cigarette.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Roughly 100 members of Congress have said they will not approve further funding of ICE without reforms. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fed-powell-golden-globes-2026%5Fn%5F6964c61ee4b0b3be67eb8c89/liveblog%5F6966aa5de4b09c0a939bfc60

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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The ethical case against using LLMs for work is straightforward and unambiguous

The productivity case against using LLMs for work is complex and requires an understanding of volatility, variability, biases, security issues, lock-in, and more

But it turns out that if you don’t have any time for ethics, you also don’t have any time for understanding complex systems, so neither case matters to them

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heliographe_studio ("Héliographe") wrote:

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History:

"J'Accuse...!", an open letter written by Émile Zola in response to the events of the Dreyfus affair, was published (13 January 1898) in the newspaper L'Aurore.

"Four years after the letter was published, Zola died from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a blocked chimney... In 1953, the newspaper Libération published a death-bed confession by a Parisian roofer that he had murdered Zola by blocking the chimney of his house."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27Accuse...!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Republicans have never once offered the type of across-the-aisle politics that some liberals advocate for. And that's why the Overton Window has shifted so far right, and Democrats lose so damn frequently.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's Defund The Police all over again.

Liberals who declared the Defund the Police movement as "political poison," do so as if they're not the ones who get to decided if defunding police brutality is a worthy pursuit.

So often, Liberals will play the role of political saboteur, then swap hats to become the political pundit observing their own undermining.

We don't need Jamelle the political pundit. We need Jamelle who says Abolish ICE (full stop) to his hundreds of thousands of followers.